US history doesn't start with the Declaration of Independence in 1776 but millions of years before that, with a host of discovered artefacts – from ancient rock carvings to remnants of a lost colony – leaving us with many more questions than answers. Who made them? Why? And what were they used for? Listed from oldest to newest (plus dates we still don't know), these archaeological discoveries in the US remain unexplained.

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